Updated: Sep 29, 2025 - The Senior Drug Safety Specialist oversees and ensures timely submission and distribution of safety reports to regulatory authorities, manages priorities, and resolves electronic submission issues. This position collaborates with cross-functional teams to monitor workflows, perform reconciliations, and analyze operational processes to minimize regulatory risks and improve efficiency. The senior specialist contributes to the development and review of standard operating procedures, training materials, and regulatory intelligence updates to align with evolving submission requirements.


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1. Senior Drug Safety Specialist, MedTrack Solutions, San Diego, CA
Job Summary:
- Establish and nurture relationships with local PV departments of the Exeltis Organization, to ensure compliance with applicable regulations and company procedures.
- Collaborate in the maintenance of the Quality PV system of Exeltis Organization, giving support in the elaboration, update, and implementation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Collaborate in the continuous monitoring of the risk-benefit balance of products owned by Exeltis.
- Ensure proper management and reporting of suspected adverse reactions to Eudravigilance, other Competent Authorities, and partners.
- Participate in internal audits of affiliates and third parties.
- Collaborate during inspections of Exeltis PV system.
- Ensure proper elaboration, review, and submission of aggregate safety reports, such as PSURs, DSURs, and RMPs.
- Collaborate in the coordination of responses to Health Authorities.
- Collaborate in the Medical Literature Monitoring Process and the review of webpages and media relevant to PV activities.
- Contribute to generating PV awareness across the Organization, by providing PV training for Exeltis employees and participating in the continuous training of other PV colleagues in the department.
- Collaborate in the elaboration, review, and implementation of PV contracts and agreements with different stakeholders.
- Ensure adequate interface and communication with other departments performing activities impacting Exeltis PV system
- Keep PV files safe, accurate, updated, and complete, in compliance with internal standards and applicable regulations.
Skills on Resume:
- Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
- Regulatory Compliance (Hard Skills)
- SOP Development (Hard Skills)
- Risk Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Adverse Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Auditing (Hard Skills)
- Safety Reports (Hard Skills)
- PV Training (Soft Skills)
2. Senior Drug Safety Specialist, BioPharm Technologies, Dallas, TX
Job Summary:
- Coordinate activities to address safety issues for global and domestic clinical studies, and direct PVG team efforts for any safety review committee (SRC) and Drug Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) activities
- Process SAEs including triaging, entering into the SAE database, writing narratives, and preparing for regulatory submission
- Mentor PVG staff in processing SAEs
- Ensure the integrity of SAE data, including performing QC of cases entered by PVG staff
- Serve as PVG representative on study teams
- Manage clinical study project set-up/close-out, regulatory reporting
- Represent PVG in Nant internal and external team meetings
- Coordinate coding and reconciliation processes
- Resolve complex problems through in-depth evaluation of various factors and collaboration with stakeholders
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of required therapeutic areas and regulatory requirements for SAE processing
- Possibly assist in the generation and writing of DSURs and other periodic reporting
Skills on Resume:
- Safety Issue Coordination (Soft Skills)
- SAE Processing (Hard Skills)
- Staff Mentoring (Soft Skills)
- Data Integrity (Hard Skills)
- Study Team Representation (Soft Skills)
- Project Management (Hard Skills)
- Problem Resolution (Soft Skills)
- Regulatory Knowledge (Hard Skills)
3. Senior Drug Safety Specialist, PharmaSafe Inc., Tampa, FL
Job Summary:
- Monitors the submission work list in the safety database for cases requiring submission or distribution to regulatory authorities and all relevant reporting destinations by case priority and report due date
- Performs ICSR submissions (in E2B form via Gateway/EVWEB and CIOMs/MedWatch) and monitors E2B submission for transmit status
- Initiates and executes backup procedures if necessary to address electronic submission failures
- Performs E2B submission validation check and manages rejected E2B transmissions via Gateway and ensures successful re-transmission as appropriate
- Works collaboratively with Global Case Management in workflow monitoring and coordinates database action items to ensure timely submission and completion
- Performs reconciliation activities including but not limited to receipt of all AEs from Business Partners
- Partners with Global Quality Systems to ensure reconciliation of Product Complaint Investigation Reports
- Partners with other functional teams (i.e. quality, compliance, analytics) for the generation and verification of monthly reconciliation metrics
- Works collaboratively with the R&D Quality & Compliance team to evaluate the performance, identify bottlenecks, minimize regulatory risks, and recognize patterns of inefficiencies in current operational processes
- Contributes content and/or review to new or revised standard operating procedures, work instructions, and training material when new and/or updated processes are introduced
- Participates in the review of regulatory intelligence information related to submission requirements
Skills on Resume:
- Submission Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- ICSR Submissions (Hard Skills)
- Backup Procedures (Hard Skills)
- E2B Validation (Hard Skills)
- Workflow Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Reconciliation Activities (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Regulatory Review (Hard Skills)
4. Senior Drug Safety Specialist, BioMed Research, Columbus, OH
Job Summary:
- Work with Safety System Teams to provide updates to reporting rules (for new business partners and vendors)
- Involvement in User Acceptance Testing for Safety database upgrades.
- Involvement in CAPA Management.
- Involvement in peer, business partner/vendor training.
- Involvement in meeting with cross functional groups in global case management/submissions and providing inputs for process improvements.
- Act as Submissions Subject Matter Expert for assigned products.
- Works collaboratively with Safety Data Exchange Agreement review and provide inputs related to submission and reconciliation requirements based on available regulatory intelligence.
- Supports audits and inspections
- Interacts with internal and external stakeholders regularly
- Ensure compliance with corporate and departmental standard operating procedures
- As an individual contributor, may serve as a project manager for functional projects or workflows
Skills on Resume:
- Reporting Rules Updates (Hard Skills)
- User Testing (Hard Skills)
- CAPA Management (Hard Skills)
- Training (Soft Skills)
- Process Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Submissions Expertise (Hard Skills)
- Safety Agreement Review (Hard Skills)
- Audit Support (Hard Skills)
5. Senior Drug Safety Specialist, Clarity Health Systems, Denver, CO
Job Summary:
- Ensures that all safety reports received from any source for Cytokinetics’ investigational products are processed in the safety database and reported according to ICH-GCP guidelines, regulatory requirements and company SOPs, Work Instructions, departmental procedures, and business partner agreements
- Ensures consistency in the evaluation and assessment of each incoming case report and source document for completeness, accuracy, and legibility
- Assists with quality review of cases to ensure the accuracy, integrity, and completeness of information entered into the safety database, including appropriateness and accuracy of MedDRA and WHO-DD coding and generation of high-quality medically/scientifically sound individual case safety reports (ICSR)
- Determines necessary follow-up for missing, discrepant, or additional information/source documentation for each case using medical, product, and regulatory knowledge to complete ICSRs
- Coordinates and monitors the distribution and submission of expedited and non-expedited individual case safety reports to regulatory authorities, business partner companies, CROs, and investigators to ensure compliance with regulatory and company timelines
- Assists with the mentoring, training, and support for departmental team members for high quality and consistent execution of daily activities in the Drug Safety Department
- Participates in assigned study activities including participation in Study Operation Team meetings and preparation of study start-up activities (e.g., development of study-specific Safety Management Plans, training of internal/external project-team members in safety-reporting processes, development of safety report forms, safety data reconciliation, site initiation training activities)
- Assists with the preparation of periodic and annual safety reports
- Assists with the preparation of safety data presentations for departmental meetings (e.g., Drug Safety Committee Meetings)
- Assists with maintenance of drug safety database including required software updates and testing in validation required for each new Cytokinetics study
- Assists with departmental activities as assigned (e.g., monitoring Drug Safety Inbox, preparation of monthly listings for distribution (e.g., DMC).
Skills on Resume:
- Safety Report Processing (Hard Skills)
- Case Evaluation (Hard Skills)
- Quality Review (Hard Skills)
- Follow-up Management (Hard Skills)
- Report Distribution (Hard Skills)
- Mentoring and Training (Soft Skills)
- Study Support (Soft Skills)
- Database Maintenance (Hard Skills)